European Community law: From the Treaty of Rome to the Treaty of Amsterdam. 2nd ed.

Book abstract:

This book updates and enlarges a previous Italian version entitled: Il Diritto Comunitario e dell'Unione Europea. It offers an overview of the structural characteristics that Community law acquired pursuant to the European Treaty, the subsequent Single European Act and the Treaty on European Union, and most recently the Treaty of Amsterdam. It undertakes a systematic analysis of Community law with particular attention given to those elements, especially the case law, which favoured its development and interpretation. It is the product of an analysis of case law and practice which attempts to combine criteria characteristic of the common law and civil law approaches.

Chapters are: European Community and European Union law; European Community institutions; Community powers; Direct applicability, Court of Justice, National judges and the Single Market: the Difficult search for balance between efficiency and legal certainty; Acts of the Community institutions; Remedies and enforcement of EC law; Filling gaps in Community law; Union citizenship and the freedoms of the Single Market; Community competition policy; and External relations.

Paolo Mengozzi, a professor of International and European Community Law at the University of Bologna law faculty, is now a judge at the European Community Court of First Instance. He has lectured extensively on European Community law topics in universities in the United States, France, Belgium and Greece and is the author of many books and articles about European and international law.